"Metamorphic+Rocks"

What causes rocks to change over time? This hands-on kit lets students use igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic specimens to examine processes such as weathering, lithification, metamorphism and magmatic assimilation.

Kit includes:
• Samples and study charts for 30 student groups
• Large specimens for easy examination
• Chart with mounted specimens
• Detailed study guide with physical properties and descriptions of more than 50 rocks, minerals, and ores.

Learn while you play with this interactive review game. Students play Bingo using 75 review cards covering the curriculum standards on rocks.

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By playing this fun game, students will better understand the intricacies of the rock cycle, including the formation and breakdown of rocks and the processes by which one type of rock becomes another.

Shows porphyritic texture in a fine dark matrix abundant large feldspar phenocrysts. Hand specimen.

Cut and finished samples with fiberoptic samples.

Grayish black trap rock.

Deformed pebbles in a metamorphased conglomerate. Large sawed and lacquered specimen.

Glossy green dunite (olivine) inclusion in non-genetically related basalt. Average size: 3" x 4".

Comprehensive, Economical Test Kit.

Coarse, 'salt and pepper': dark pyroxene and light andesine. Provides perfect representation of an intermediate igneous rock.

Examples of the More Important Minerals Found in Rocks

Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs

Designed for Introductory College Petrography Labs

When minerals, rocks, and fossils cannot be accurately identified by macroscopic observation and testing, thin section slides can reveal the composition and structure of the specimens on a microscopic level.

Colorful visual reference of various stages of rock transformation.